I don't want to turn this into a huge fight or anything but will comment on the situation.
I went to Duckroll and complained of verbal abuse in this thread I was receiving, mainly from reilo, but from others in here as well. I didn't want or ask for anybody to be banned, just for the constant put downs and insults to be addressed because nobody deserves to deal with that on this site. You can blame me all you want but Reilo got that 24 hour vacation on his own.
I chose not to PM Blackace, who is active in this thread, because he has ignored me before and lets a lot of things slide in here that would get you banned elsewhere on the site. I'm not calling him a bad mod or anything, just stating a fact. I have specifically asked users in here such as reilo to refrain from insulting me. Last night when he essentially laughed in my face after I asked him to stop, I got fed up and went to an outside moderator for help. You can think it's snitching or whatever but I had no other choice. I've said the abuse doesn't bother me in an attempt to get many of you to stop but it really does bug me.
I admitted to Duckroll that I've made some inflammatory posts in the past but stopped doing so because it wasn't doing any good, you can stop trying to drag up old quotes from months ago and saying I need to be banned. My behavior changed in here, other people didn't adapt and think it's ok to bully other users.
In fact, some of those posts are completely taken out of context such as when I said I wanted two more Lakers to get hurt. If you read the thread I had commented on how I wanted to see what would happen if only 4 players were available and it was said tongue in cheekly, I'm not advocating people tearing their ACLs or anything like that.
I've tried ignoring the abuse. I tried being nice. I tried leaving and then coming back. Nothing worked. The 'dog pile us vs them' mentality needs to stop and I just hope everyone can chill out and move on. I'm not holding grudges, hopefully other people feel the same and we can go back to discussing hoops in an environment that isn't hostile.
That's all I have to say on this, I won't address it in the thread again.